Bug Report - jrnl item not written
Author: mosasiniCreated Apr 2, 2026Updated Jul 20, 2026
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Diagnostic output
❯ jrnl --diagnostic jrnl: v4.3 Python: 3.14.3 (main, Feb 3 2026, 15:32:20) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.6.3.2)] OS: Darwin 25.3.0
Current Behavior
┏━ Error ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ModuleNotFoundError ┃.config/jrnl/jrnl.yaml ┃
┃ No module named 'parsedatetime' ┃━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
┃ ┃
┃ This is probably a bug. Please file an issue at: ┃
┃ https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/new/choose ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛Expected Behavior
journal entry file stays, or journal entry is written - seems it just rid my entry completely
Repro Steps
only happened once
Debug output
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Other Information
I care less about the modulenotfounderror than the discarded journal entry - cause the error happened only once, but the lost entry corrodes my trust a bit
Source: jrnl-org/jrnl